Headed slug-nail



(No Model.)

J.- HYS'LOP, Jrf

HEADED SLUGNAIL. No. 300,077: Patented June 10, 1884.

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ATTORNEYS.

'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HYSLOP, JR, OF AB INGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEADED SLUG-NAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,077, dated June 10, 1884.

Application filed January 9, 1884. (No model.)

and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, in all the figures.

Figure lis a side elevation of one of my improvednails. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation of the same. Fig. 3 .is a point view of the same. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of an ordinary slugnail. Fig. 5 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 6 is a point view of the same.

The object of this invention is to provide slug-nails made in such a manner that they will be more easily driven and will hold firmer in the leather than the ordinary nails.

The invention consists in a nail made with a rectangular wedgeshaped point and a rectangular head, having its end parts connected with the body by tapered webs, so that the heads will not crack the leather, and the nail will hold the leather firmly, as will be hereinafter fully described.

A representsthe body of the nail, which heads can bemade large without being liable to crack the leather. With this construction the bodies of the nails are straight, or nearly so, instead of being tapered, like the old nail, (illustrated in Fig. 4,) so that the nails will hold firmer in the leather, can be readily 45 driven, and will'drive down smooth.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The headed slug-nail consisting of the body A, formed with a rectangular head, '0, and tapered webs D, connecting the end parts of the head with the body, and a rectangular wedgeshaped point, B, substantially as set forth.

JOHN HYSLOP, J R.

Witnesses:

BAYARD DUDLEY, TIMOTHY DRAKE. 

